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" Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength. "
Phil Jackson
Wisdom
Strength
Always
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" There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives. "
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" What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens. "
Ellen Glasgow
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" We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. "
Marcel Proust
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" The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence. "
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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" Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you. "
Tom Hopkins
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" Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim. "
John D. Rockefeller
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" Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom. "
Julia Ward Howe
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" We developed a technology called artificial swarm intelligence, which is all about tapping the inherent knowledge, wisdom, intuition of groups. "
Louis B. Rosenberg
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" Everyone has always underestimated a company headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. The New York boys thought they could take me on, that nobody out here has any knowledge or wisdom. "
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" Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. "
Wallace Stegner
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" Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. "
Saint Augustine
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" If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom. "
Nigel Farage
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" However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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" Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. "
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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" If you want to go east, don't go west. "
Ramakrishna
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" In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks and Romans also held the view that acceptance is the beginning of wisdom. "
Simon Van Booy
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Beginning
" Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame. "
Abbott L. Lowell
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" A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one. "
Lord John Russell
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" There's a lot of chatter in basketball and, rightfully, you want players to be talking to each other... But sometimes in practice, it gets too verbose... so I tried to take things out of the ordinary and make them special so they'd understand the difference. "
Phil Jackson
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" It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. "
Epictetus
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" It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst. "
Desiderius Erasmus
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Wisdom
" You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself. "
Teri Garr
Wisdom
Yourself
You
" Be as you wish to seem. "
Socrates
You
Wish
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" What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty. "
Shinichi Suzuki
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" Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth. "
Mikhail Gorbachev
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" I'd love to spend more time on the Isle of Man. I love the anonymity of putting on a boiler suit and going down to buy parts for the compressor. And Norman Wisdom's a neighbour; I salute him occasionally. "
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" Protection, as we use the word in Buddhism, is actually wisdom, it's insight. Protection is seeing and knowing deeply that all things in our experience arise due to causes, due to conditions coming together in a certain way. "
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" Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have $50 for a bus ticket out of town. If we want to learn something from this disaster, the lesson ought to be: America's poor deserve better than this. "
Michael Eric Dyson
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" Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom. "
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" While people are quick to praise the wisdom of the crowd, being an old-school journalist, I look at the wisdom of the crowd and know it can quickly turn into a mob mentality. "
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